Randall Hyde
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Randall Hyde is best known as the author of The Art of Assembly Language, a popular book on assembly language
programming. He created the Lisa assembler
in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly (HLA)
language.
Randall Hyde was educated at, and became a lecturer at, the University of California at Riverside. He earned a bachelors degree in Computer Science in 1982, and a Masters degree in Computer Science in 1987 - both from UC Riverside. His area of specialization is compilers and other system software, and he has written compilers, assemblers, operating systems and control software. He was a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
from 1988–93 and a lecturer at UC Riverside from 1989-2000. While teaching at UC-Riverside and Cal Poly, Pomona, Randy frequently taught classes pertaining to assembly programming (beginning and advanced), software design, compilers, and programming language theory.
He was founder and president of Lazer Microsystems, which wrote SmartBASIC, ADAM calc" for the Coleco ADAM
. According to Rich Drushel, the company also wrote the ADAM part of CP/M
2.2.
Hyde is frequently seen on the alt.lang.asm newsgroup.
Assembly language
An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...
programming. He created the Lisa assembler
Lisa assembler
Lazer's Interactive Symbolic Assembler is an interactive MOS 6502 assembler for Apple II computers written by Randall Hyde in the late 1970s.The latest version of Lisa is V3.2. Syntax mistakes can be reported immediately in the edit mode...
in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly (HLA)
High Level Assembly
High Level Assembler is an assembly language developed by Randall Hyde. It allows the use of higher-level language constructs to aid both beginners and advanced assembly developers. It fully supports advanced data types and object-oriented assembly language programming...
language.
Randall Hyde was educated at, and became a lecturer at, the University of California at Riverside. He earned a bachelors degree in Computer Science in 1982, and a Masters degree in Computer Science in 1987 - both from UC Riverside. His area of specialization is compilers and other system software, and he has written compilers, assemblers, operating systems and control software. He was a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, or Cal Poly Pomona, is a public university located in Pomona, California, United States...
from 1988–93 and a lecturer at UC Riverside from 1989-2000. While teaching at UC-Riverside and Cal Poly, Pomona, Randy frequently taught classes pertaining to assembly programming (beginning and advanced), software design, compilers, and programming language theory.
He was founder and president of Lazer Microsystems, which wrote SmartBASIC, ADAM calc" for the Coleco ADAM
Coleco Adam
The Coleco Adam is a home computer, an attempt in the early 1980s by American toy manufacturer Coleco to follow on the success of its ColecoVision game console...
. According to Rich Drushel, the company also wrote the ADAM part of CP/M
CP/M
CP/M was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc...
2.2.
Hyde is frequently seen on the alt.lang.asm newsgroup.
Selected articles by Hyde
The Fallacy of Premature Optimization, ACM Ubiquity, 2006, Volume 7, Issue 24.Modern books
- The Art of Assembly Language (ISBN 1-886411-97-2)
- Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine (ISBN 1-59327-003-8)
- Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level (ISBN 1-59327-065-8)
Early Apple programming books
- How to Program the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language (1981) http://www.scribd.com/doc/2429815/Using-6502-Assembly-Language-by-Randy-Hyde
- P-Source (Inside Apple Pascal) (1982)
See also
- DatamostDatamostDatamost was a software design company founded by David Gordon and based in Chatsworth, California. Datamost operated in the early 1980s producing games and other software mainly for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari platforms, with some for the IBM PC...
, an early software design company which published works by Randy Hyde - The Rebirth of Assembly Language Programming by Dan Romanchik, Application Development Trends, 13 October 2003, an interview with Randy Hyde about assembly language